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Hard Drive

Memory

Communications

Supplemental Drive

Power

Battery

4,600 mAh

Physical Spec

Dimensions (W x D x H)

8.5" x 5" x 0.3"

Weight

0.75 lb.

Communications

Service

Wi-Fi Only

Quick Info

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Rating: 3/5Nice tablet

Cons: The screen is pretty much impossible to see when in direct sunlight. Out of the three that I (we) purchased, two needed to be RMAed for USB port issues (wouldn't take a charge; likely the USB ports came free from the PCB). We were told shipping would be covered under warranty, then after over a week of waiting for the shipping label (that was verbally promised), we were told that we had to pay shipping. I hate it when company representatives lie to customers. Left a bad taste.

Other Thoughts: Other than the poor USB port durability, overall quality seems good.

Other Thoughts: This is an amazing tablet. The processing package is not bleeding-edge anymore, but it is still more than competent. One egg was deducted because my unit suffers from backlight bleed. I should have noticed before I rooted and flashed CM onto it. Now I'm pretty sure that I've voided the warranty.

Other Thoughts: I've owned this little tablet for a couple of months now, and I love it. My previous tablet was an Asus 10-inch Transformer (original version). While it was a fine tablet in its day, it did become quite slow and a bit unstable over time. Yes, I probably could have revived it by doing a factory wipe and reinstalling everything, or by installing a different Rom altogether, but I was also looking for something a bit smaller and lighter. The Asus is a lot of things, but *light* isn't one of them. The LG is perfect at 8.3 inches, and quite light. I wasn't sure if I'd like a tablet smaller than 10 inches, but I find that I don't really miss the difference in size.

One of my favorite features on this is the Q-Pair application. Using Bluetooth, I can have my phone (Samsung G3) on my charger in my bedroom, while still seeing (and responding to) text messages, and seeing incoming phone calls to my phone. Unfortunately, since I don't have an LG phone, I can't answer phone calls, but that's okay. At least I don't miss them completely now, and I can keep my phone on my charger in the evenings.

Rating: 4/5I love it

Pros: I have been very pleased with this tablet. I use it primarily for reading / annotating documents. I find the touch screen very specific. And although the background light is not "super bright" it is bright enough to read with ease and the colors are natural. The battery life is good. Also moving between documents and book chapters is very smooth.

Cons: With the update of the android system to KitKat you will get several issues when trying to use the SD card which can be annoying .. I had to root the tablet to get over this problem.

Rating: 1/5Stopped working suddenly

Cons: Device stopped working suddenly. It will not charge (tried original as well as LG G2 charger). Could not hard reset as well (Power and VOL down button for > 30 seconds) after trying charging it for > 1 Hr.

Rating: 5/5Very Happy..

Pros: I recently obtained this tablet on a 199.99 special for a refurbished model on another seller and I have to say I am impressed for 200$.

-Snapdragon 600 (1.7Ghz). This is a snappy little thing. On par with something like an Galaxy S4 or an HTC One (M7). It's one of the top mobile CPUs today. This will be the Note 8 and the Nexus 7 (yes the 2013 refresh) in terms of overall performance.

-2GB of ram. Awesome. Multitasks like a beast, swaps between apps fast.

-11GB of Storage + microSD slot. It's worth noting that 4.4.2 bring some mSD write issues. These issues can be fixed if you are rooted and edit the platform.xml file under ect/permissions/platform.xml with any file explorer that has root support.

It's literally a single line you add under WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE.<group gid="media_rw" /> and your SD card should work for everything.

-Awesome DPI. It's nice to see tablet makers pushing their 7/8 inch tablets past the terrible 1280x800, up a notch. This device comes in at a very health 272PPI and gives me a very crisp image. Great for watching HD videos, and text looks very clear.

Cons: -Camera(S). Both of them are pretty mediocre. I don't use my tablet camera, I assume most people don't either, but it would be nice to see some effort on this part. Even for skype I found the front facing one to be a little fuzzy.

-Bloatware. While I found some of the features like Knock-on/off and Qpair to be really handy, there was a good bit of bloatware to clear out via Titanium-Backup. I really hate that device makers pre-install this junk and it's a trend that should really stop. At the very least make it so normal users can uninstall it without rooting their device.

-Software. I'm also not a fan of LG's skin and bloated software. I'm still trying to find a rom I really like for this device, CM11 doesn't really do it for me.

-Speaker Placement. After using a HTC One for the past year, any device without front facing speakers really sucks. While I don't use the speakers that often, I feel no android device should have rear-facing speakers in this day in age.

-Battery Life. I'm not sure what I expected, but I get a subpar 6hrs while watching videos. I was hoping for something a little better, but I may just opt for a backup battery. With low brightness and all off the extras (wifi/bt) turned off, I do get a solid 9+ hours of reading though.

Other Thoughts: All-in-All, at a ~200$ price point, this is an amazing buy. But if you are buying at MSRP, there are better options out there and better things on the way.

Other Thoughts: Given it's small drawbacks here and there, this tablet has held up fairly well to my everyday use. I'd recommend anyone getting this also get a cover for it, i may be resistant to scratches somewhat, but it's not immune to them. also, microfiber cloth works well to keep fingerprints off of it.

a decent tablet, held up well to the abuse it's been through. a bit expensive perhaps?

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